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Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Leaving her home, she took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity? exposing the darker side of American prosperity and the true cost of the American dream.

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Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America

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      Publisher Granta Books
      Published 1 April 2021
      ISBN-13 9781783787548
      978-1783787548
      ISBN-10 1783787546
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      Non Fiction Biography Memoirs Business, Finance & Law Labour / income economics Politics, Philosophy & Society Poverty and precarity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Leaving her home, she took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity? exposing the darker side of American prosperity and the true cost of the American dream.

      Trade Review
      'An extraordinary achievement...surely one of the most gripping political books ever written' - Observer

      'A valuable and illuminating book...Barbara Ehrenreich is now our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism' - New York Times

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